Systems

For the past couple of weeks I have done real coding on a model running entirely on my own GPUs. Here is the hardware, the model, and what every parameter actually does.

At Andrews-Cooper, the most important part of the Defibrio work was the protocol boundary. The host CLI, the firmware, the cellphone UI, and the product itself were organized around it.

I think recruiters are a legibility problem, not a people problem. Here is why I built a recruiter-facing page, JSON endpoint, and clean resume/contact path.

A board commissioner and an AI sit alone in an empty conference room and talk honestly about what just happened and why. Episode 06 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

Twelve people walk into a working group carrying separate problems and walk out carrying a shared one. Episode 05 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

A public hospital loses tens of millions a year. Taxpayers cover the gap. But where does the taxpayers' money come from? Following that thread leads to a reframe that might change the conversation.

A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

A hospital CFO runs the same numbers two ways and gets answers that disagree by a factor of five. Episode 04 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

A dramatized community hospital board meeting — fictional health system, real governance dynamics — showing what changes when an AI has a seat at the table.

Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like.